There are two types of teachers. Those who tell you what you want to hear and those who tell you what you don't want to hear.

The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.

The success of Yoga must not be measured by how flexible your body becomes, but rather by how much it opens your heart.

Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind.

Anybody can breathe. Therefore anybody can practice yoga.

The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings.

When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

In stages, the impossible becomes possible.

The recognition of confusion is itself a form of clarity.

Yoga serves the individual, and does so through inviting transformation rather than by giving information.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.

Fear is the impotence of the soul.

The real in us is silent

We waste this life dreaming of another.

When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

The average individual spends many, many lifetimes meditating and seeking and chewing bubblegum and doing things like that to attain the experience of samadhi.

You might have a warrior spirit in there somewhere, and it's just waiting for the opportunity to come out. If you do, you might be a candidate for the pathway to enlightenment.

I wanted to be a veterinarian. I adored animals, raised everything in the world and decided that was going to be what I was going to do. But I could sing.

They don't want to feed an ISIS narrative that there is a religious war between Islam and the Christian West, plus genocide is carefully defined under international law.